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London: Temple Press Books, 1966. x, 166pp, bw ills. Or decorated 2-tone blue cloth in jacket. Jacket very lightly rubbed , with with a little minor foxing, light toning to top page edges. Pencil inscription (and loosely inserted business card) from member of the WWI Aero Historians Mid-West Chapter. Nice cover illustration of British biplane. Aviation Classics reprint of 1926 original. This is the diary of one of the first American aviators who came to Europe in the last 2 years of the First World war. He was killed in action in the closing months of the war. The book tells of his training and the air war in France. Tells precisely, yet dramatically, what the business of flying meant to an average pilot in 1917 and 1918. . First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: John Hamilton, 1927. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Gently faded at the spine. Leans slightly. Front hinge tape-repaired. Hinges weak in other place although the text remains bright and clean. . Clayton Knight. Hardback. Physically 7¾” x 5¼” (0.8 kg); (ix) 277pp; Illustrated by Clayton Knight; Contains: Black & white drawings; Illustrated endpapers and blanks; Frontispiece; Title page vignette; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #183743|| Condition: